Jessica Park Quotes

• “If you can't stop thinking about someone's update, that's called "status cling.”

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• “Then she did what any girl would do: she Googled him.”

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• “I 'Facebook like' you, but I'm not IN 'Facebook like' with you.”

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• “It was always you. I thought it was someone else, but it was you. You were the person that I felt.”

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• “The friends you make in college are friends you'll have for life, even if you don't talk for years at a time.”

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• “Mom, I have to go. I think this Matt character is here."
  "Are you sure it's him?"
  Julie peered into the car as the window lowered. "I see a maniacal-looking guy with brightly-colored candy in one hand, and he's waving a sickle in the other. Oh! He's beckoning me to the car. This must be my ride.”

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• “Normal people can become very annoying if put in annoying situations.”

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• “What happens when you get scared half to death twice?”

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• “You can look back now and see how you should have known, but you were focusing on the facts instead of the feeling.”

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• “I put my pants on one leg at a time, just like everyone else. It's the way I take them OFF that makes me better than you.”

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• “Happy New Year, Julie.”
  “Happy New Year, Matty.” She turned off the television and rolled onto her side. “Matty, I have another question for you.”
  “Uh-oh.”
  “Are you a skilled lover?”
  “And that concludes our evening chat.”

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• “I hope that someday they invent a car that runs on inappropriate thoughts”

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• “At least I'm not a font nerd."
  "A what?"
  Matt smiled. "You know. People who love fonts. There are people who go to a movie and get agitated because, while the movie is supposed to be set in 1962, the restaurant awning shown in the background of some scene is printed in Arras Bold, which wasn't invented until 1991, so clearly the producers of the movie are insane and should be beheaded.”

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• “This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.”

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• “He just wasn’t the guy, you know? I want the guy. The everything guy. Not the dumb Prince Charming, nauseatingly-perfect everything guy. That’s pathetic. I want the flaws-and-all everything guy.”

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• “...that's what love does to you. Gut-wrenching, overpowering, crushing, fulfilling, complex, bring-you-to-your-knees love.”

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• “It's not what you know-or when you see-that matters. It's about the journey.”

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• “Stupid kissing. Stupid roaming hands. Stupid boys.”

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• “Julie swallowed. "Flat Finn is on Facebook?" She'd love to see those status updates. 'Got strapped to the roof of the car today for a trip to Starbucks. Would have loved to taste caramel mocha, but can't move arms and so was forced to stare longingly at delicious hot beverage. Will the taunting never end?”

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• “It’s smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It’s a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.”

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• “Internet access came before pride. ”

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• “So we've pulled the chute, and we're drifting, riding the sky. It's just you and me. You can hear me now that we're falling like this, remember? I tell you that I don't want this to end. I don't want to land and reach the real world, because I like our world up here better.”

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• “How you find love means nothing. It’s what you do with it when you see it that does.”

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• “Why do you have to correct everything I say?” Julie glanced at his FTW! shirt. “Out of the two of us, I don’t think I’m the one that deviates from the norm.” The train slammed to a stop. “You’re the one who seems to get off arguing.”
  “You sound exactly like Finn. We’re exchanging ideas. Debating.” Matt looked down at his shorts. “And so far I haven’t gotten off.”

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• “Julie marched over to Matt. She stood in front of him and crossed her arms. “Lift up your sweatshirt.”
  Matt rolled his eyes. “God, you really know how to turn a guy on.”
  Julie didn’t budge. “If I was trying to turn you on, I could do better than that. Now, lift up your sweatshirt.”
  Matt looked up at her and tried to look serious. “Julie, I’m completely offended that you have so little faith in my honesty. I thought at this point in our friendship that you would at least—”
  “Get up.” Julie leaned over and shut his laptop. “Get up!” she said again.
  “You’re being ridiculous,” Matt said laughing, but he stood up. “I trust you implicitly, and it wouldn’t kill you to show me the same respect.”
  “Show me!”
  Matt sidestepped the chair and took a few steps backward. “You have quite the attitude today. Suspicious and mean.”
  Julie took a step forward, causing Matt to continue backing away. “Lift up your shirt.”
  “Look, I appreciate an aggressive woman, but this is really getting weird.”
  Julie grabbed his sweatshirt by the waist cuff and lifted it up with one hand, as she pulled down his T-shirt with the other. Matt put his hands over hers, lightly protesting, but she refused to let go. “Aha!” She squinted at his shirt.
  “OK, I don’t even know what this is, but it’s definitely geeky.”

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